Happy Friday, everyone.
Well, it isn’t but we’ll make the best of it. Fridays definitely don’t feel as cool when you’re working from home, that’s just a fact. Just can’t get amped up about going home for the weekend when you’ve already been home the whole week.
Los Angeles is closed pic.twitter.com/ZDn4Wt1F8M
— duke london (@LongLiveTheDuke) March 20, 2020
And now it looks like we’ll be stuck at home for the foreseeable future, as Mayor Garcetti announced last night that the city of LA was SHUT DOWN.
Anything in LA that wasn’t already closed is now closed, everything except the essentials.
Dispensaries and golf courses are considered "essential businesses" that can stay open in LA
— Bobby Hundreds (@bobbyhundreds) March 20, 2020
It’s a trying time and everyone is freaking out but it’s definitely somewhat comforting knowing everyone is just as scared as you and nobody knows how this will all play out. Did I say comforting? Eh, maybe not comforting. But it makes it slightly easier to navigate this scary new experience knowing that we’re all in it together.
Tools like Zoom and Slack have helped our team stick together while the Rona has tried its best to keep us apart. And tools like Pop-Tarts and Chex Mix have personally helped me through this time of great uncertainty when I have to do my shopping at CVS since the grocery store looks like a scene from Mad Max.
thank you zack, we all needed this pic.twitter.com/bedRsVgbHN
— dexter (@019dexter) March 20, 2020
While the collective world loses its mind, memes and funny videos have kept us smiling in the short term, offering brief moments of reprieve during what could very well be the apocalypse. Yes, I started referring to these as the End Times when all the taco spots closed because it might as well be.
So, with that said, here are some more distractions.